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November 14, 2008 Technical Committee Agenda

10:00 AM Introductions and Review of Agenda (60k Word)
10:05 AM Overview of the Forum's Work Plan (30k Excel) for 2009 (John Fazio)
  • Summary (50k Word) of the six technical work groups
  • GENESYS model enhancements
10:30 AM Hydro Peaking Capacity (470k PowerPoint) Work Group (Mary Johannis, Don Long)
  • Update on Trapezoidal vs. HOSS hydro peaking capacity
  • Regional sustained hydro peaking capacity contract - Phase I (120k PDF)
  • Decision Item: To proceed with Phase II to implement Phase I work plan
11:30 AM LOLP Definition (140k Power Point) Work Group (Fazio, Johannis)
  • Overview of LOLP methodologies (30k Word) across NERC
  • Decision Item: To consider replacing the curtailment thresholds (used for the LOLP calculation) with a generic contingency resource (to reflect resources not modeled in GENESYS
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Data Validation (60k PDF) Work Groups (Dick Adams)
  • Load forecasts and conservation
  • Generating resources
2:00 PM Benchmarking Work Group (John Fazio)
2:30 PM Wind Assessment (2.5 Power Point) Work Group (Johannis)
  • Correlation between wind generation and temperature
  • Developing a long-term synthetic wind generation data set
3:00 PM Schedule Next Meeting